Remake of "The Prisoner"

[Friday]

They're remaking the TV show "The Prisoner".  I'm embarassed to say I haven't even seen the original yet.     Hopefully this will be good; the preview looks awesome!

After forty years, AMC is remaking a six-hour version of The Prisoner, the late Patrick McGoohan's clever, libertarian, metaphysical, TV mini-series. With the ominous rise of statism and collectivism now in the United States and elsewhere, this program could not be more timely in addressing such issues as privacy and government surveillance, propaganda and mind control, de-humanization and individual rights, modernism and objective truth, good and evil, justice, and much more. To be aired in November 2009, the program stars Ian McKellen as Number 2 and Jim Caviezel as Number 6.

With the enormous success of ABC-TV's program, Lost, that draws upon such themes in the timeless work of such writers as C.S. Lewis (e.g., The Silver Chair, That Hideous Strength, The Great Divorce, etc.)..., The Prisoner similarly explores profound metaphysical and ethical issues sure to capture a major audience. We can only hope that the new series remains true to the themes McGoohan embedded in the original. Here is the preview:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1119352258?bctid=30345659001

[Lloyd Danforth]

It will be good for a new generation to experience The Prisoner.  It will be hard to beat the original series.  In the summer of 1968 I was AWOL and hiding on an old farm in central CT.  There was a tv and we watched every evening.  There was a lot going on that summer.  Robert Kennedy assassination, the controversial  Summer Olympics in Mexico City,  The Democratic Convention in Chicago and all the, daily, war and lyndon johnson shit.
All this was on tv along with the controversial Smothers Brothers show that was breaking ground with such things as having Pete Seger for a guest. Up to that time Seger had not been on tv since his 'Blacklisting' in the 50's.
The Prisoner was first shown on Public tv, (I think) that summer.  We had never seen anything like it before and never missed an episode.

[Russell Kanning]

cool
if you beg ... Lloyd might let you see some

[Friday]

A lot of good things came out of 1968.   

[Lloyd Danforth]

Friggin Babies!

[Lloyd Danforth]

cool
if you beg ... Lloyd might let you see some

I won't but, Netflix will.

[toowm]

I do have the original set on DVD if anyone wants to borrow it.

[David]

Better still, the Prisoner online. 
http://www.amctv.com/videos/the-prisoner-1960s-video/?bcpid=2517767001&bclid=6012619001&bctid=6069547001

[Sam A. Robrin]

The full set is also available at the Keene Public Library.

[K. Darien Freeheart]

I downloaded the entire series but I couldn't really get past the first episode of "The Prisoner". Apparently, anything on TV prior to 1980 that isn't a comedy is simply paced too slowly to hold my interest.

[AntonLee]

They're ondemand on comcast if anyone's interested in watching.

I'm confused.

I think I need to be on acid or something to understand.

[KBCraig]

When you watch a marathon, that 3+ minute opening sequence gets old.

[AntonLee]

I kinda liked it.  My girlfriend almost threw the remote at the TV after hearing me "sing along" to

"aahhhh ahm nat a naaambaa  I'm a free maan"

[Lloyd Danforth]

When you watch a marathon, that 3+ minute opening sequence gets old.

I can never get enough of that Lotus 7!.....Drool......

[Charlie Clemons]

I'm kind of doubting how true this will be to the original. Check out what Ian McKellen said in an interview, pretty disgusting stuff:
                     
                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAyOg6HvCb8